Category FAQs Search : Trends That Will Transform The Agriculture and Farming Industry
Question: Globalization,biotechnologization of agriculture and farmers: The quasi-employees of the new high technology farms by Samuel Abaidoo
Answer: One of the major changes associated with economic globalization is the increasing importance of intellectual property. In the area of food production, the procurement of intellectual property rights over life forms, particularly seeds, by the new life industry is radically transforming agricultural production relations.One major effect of this transformation is the redefinition of farmers as contract growers by the life industry. This new status of farmers, which is part of a trend that was set in motion with the commodification of food, is making them freelancing quasi-employees of agricultural businesses, including the life industry.
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(Source: Pustaka Negeri Sarawak, 19 Mar 2020)
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